I miss the anti-war quotes from the old one when you die. The one that stuck with me the most was from call of duty 4 "the cost of a single javelin missile, 75000 dollars". I remember when I first saw that as a teenager. Here I was shooting these thing's off like no tomorrow. Hell, in the mission leading up to "the bog" i had shot like seven of them in a matter of minutes. $75000 dollars a missile, it stuck with me, how many people had I killed with that money that could have been used to help people. I knew it was a video game sure but that simple message made me realize the expense of war not just in lives lost but in lost opportunity to do good.
oh, and don't even get me started on world at war. There were so many moments in that game that made me stop and question what I was doing. Made me question if I was the good guy or not. The two I remember the most is the part of the mission when you first land on pelalu and send in a rocket attack on the Japanese defenses, then you go over your cover... dozens of dead or dying men everywhere. I remember bayoneting the first few because game's always taught me to kill bad guy's but after the first few I coudent do it anymore. I just slowly walked through hearing them cry in pain wishing the game would let me help them. The next one was during the Russian attack on berlin. I shot a german point blank with a double barrel shot gun. just as i was about to turn away and keep fighting when I noticed what id done, what i had been doing. The german chest was torn open, his arm was missing and half his face was gone. That was the first time in a video game I'd ever felt like I'd actually done something truly wrong, something inhuman. I stood there and stared at the germans body for what felt like forever as my comrades shot and yelled around me. It was as though at that moment I realized what I had been doing the whole game. I had been killing people and enjoying it. How many people had i left mutilated like this german before me without noticing it. how many people had i killed in my blind enjoyment, I knew that this realization should have hit me sooner in the game but it toke this moment to finally make me realize how absent-mindedly id been playing the game and how little respect I had given to what I was doing. They were virtual lives to be certain but in that single moment, I felt like a monster.
MW4 really changed my view because of those quotes. Hell, the multiplayer was good fun, but the Singleplayer was a pure cinematic masterpiece where no one really won.
to quote Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation in one of his modern COD reviews, ''if the nuke moment from Modern Warfare 1 was done in the current games, your character would just stand up, fart out all the radiation and remove the shards of glass off his eyes while heroic patriotic dubstep music played in the background''
Cadrian I'm pretty sure you misquoted that, he says "take the shards of glass out of your eyes and shiv the ayatollah" instead of the dubstep stuff. Your one is nearly as good though hahah
*"These teams of talented and creative individuals are spending thousands of hours and millions of dollars to make a $60 edition of Simon Says."* (17:28) -Perfectly summarized the franchise.
Yeah, I hate how realistic it is too! Man, in real war, you don't have someone shouting orders at you. I just want to run around a map with no clear mission or directive.
I think one point he kind of missed is that after Modern Warfare 2 COD became primarily a multiplayer shooter game where the campaign is just a bonus and not the main course. Many players didn't even touch campaign or if they did it was only after enjoying many hours of multiplayer already. Hence Black ops 4 not even having a campaign
I actually think that works, as now they could focus the multiplayer on COD:BLOPS while trying to make a better story experience in the main games. Plus, it looks as though it will have that balls to the walls feel of MW2
The slow hollowing of Call of Duty can be gauged through their shifted commitment from a campaign-centric game to a multiplayer-centric game. In MW1 and WAW and to a lesser degree MW2, you had a crossing of these two where both were strong, now that shift has gone to multiplayer and don't get me started on zombies.
ian arboleda yea that entire level is like so emotional bc you’re fighting to make sure you don’t die to your own people, but i wouldn’t rank it over the nuke scene from cod 4, that just brings back a lot more memories from me bc i used to ply that level over and over just for that
One point that I think you missed that shows much the series change MW 1 was the lack of quotes upon death. Pretty every game before (or at least I remember) had a anti war message quote displayed for a few second before you respawn. It always stuck with me and help give that feeling that you really just die. Won't find that in the new ones at all.
MediaFREAKED yeah it was in MW2 and MW3. i think Ghosts as well, i can't really remember. i didn't play Ghosts much. they're in Infinite Warfare though
BlueRose50 they're still quotes. i also want to add that Infinite Warfare's quotes aren't really quotes. it's just little facts about what happened or more back story to Infinite Warfare's story and whatnot. just realised that playing through it again
When people say "Modern Warfare is bad", what I feel they actually mean is, "What Modern Warfare did to the gaming industry is bad." And it's not even Modern Warfare's fault. Infinity Ward made a good game, and then every game developer, including Infinity Ward, forgot WHY it was good.
I wouldn't even argue that it's specifically Modern Warfare. FFVII was a massive deconstruction of most previous JRPGs at the time before everyone started making dark RPGs with angsty protagonists. The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen inspired an entire age of perpetually scowly gun and katana-toting comic book "heroes" who set out to be cooler and more effective than those goody two-shoes that preceded them. For every one creator who actually understands the work that inspired them there's 9 others who just blindly copy all the superficial elements.
super koopa 64 Honestly my view was completely the opposite in some ways. The thing I liked about modern warfare and mw2's multiplayer was that everything felt overpowered. If everything is overpowered though, nothing is overpowered. The multiplayer in those games worked and it felt good because bullets actually killed and the guns felt powerful to use. In comparison, the design of the newer games was terrible as far multiplayer gameplay. Maps got more and more convoluted and the guns felt and sounded more and more weak or like there was no purpose for them to exist other than "this gun is different than that gun"
A Kelp Shake Cod waw : the Soviets grow more and more brutal and bloodthirsty as you progress through the campaign Cod ww2 : look an all happy group of clichéd soldiers
"War...has changed." - Solid Snake War changes constantly, it's literally measured in generations and they pass with exponential frequency as time passes. "War never changes" "Hold my beer" - Donald Trump, Space Force
@@PersonalMystery123 War changes multiple times between major wars and the public never bats an eye Hell there are people who still don't realize that the USA can disable enemy nuclear sites while ours launch all day. We have heat weapons, laser weapons, sound weapons, and that's just the 50 year old crap we're allowed to see.
I like revisiting this video because it's the reason I even decided to play Call of Duty 2 in the first place. Now it's easily one of my favorite games in the series.
Overall I absolutely agree with your sentiments. Call of Duty was, as you said, about being one soldier among many, fighting to survive brutal, massive battles. Newer Call of Duty games have definitely gone away from this path, but I'd say it didnt really get too far off course until MW3 or Black Ops 2. While MW2 is easy to scapegoat for it's admittedly ridiculous story and abundance of setpeices, it remained true to CoD mostly through the US Army Ranger missions. You failed to mention that all the missions you pointed out that had restrictive cinematic gameplay were on the TF-141 side, designed to be more of an over-the-top action movie to contrast with the larger, more liberating battles on the Ranger side. There were also plenty of moments in other games that held on to CoD's formula, namely MW3's larger battles (especially in Germany). You also completely omitted a game where the cinematic level of storytelling greatly enhanced the campaign, Black Ops. It was a gripping story full of intrigue that had a similar balance of insane setpieces and "grunt in a big battle" moments while still delivering an interesting character-driven storyline the likes of which CoD had never seen before.
Modern Warfare 2's plot is not ridiculous, it is one of the best in the series. While the overabundance of Michael Bay scenes are true, it stayed with a consistent storyline and a great villain."5 years ago, I lost 30,000 men in a blink of an eye…"
What?! MW2 was badass, it felt more realistic at the time because of the foreign affairs that were and still are happening in American, Russian and Middle Eastern countries. I think BO2 was when it got off course. Once you go futuristic, its very difficult to go back.
@@I_am_a_cat_ BO4 is a peculiar case, zombies isn't terrible but I don't really care for the changes to the mechanics so I think it's meh, too early to tell as they haven't released any DLC, IX and Classified are good maps though. I think BO3 was better as it had the best and most maps. But unlike BO3, BO4 has 2 other modes that are worthwhile, so zombies has competition for best mode, making it less clear which is the best.
I write reviews, previews, and other articles for them. The Halo series is entirely my content, it was just posted on there to get more views than on my own channel. I thought it'd be better for them to get a few hundred views instead of a couple dozen. But it's far exceeded my expectations.
"The airport sequence that freaked everyone out when it got leaked online shrieks of desperation from the developers to make something more skull-splitting than the nuke scene.But it's nothing more than shock value,it's got nothing to say outside of the narrative and inside the narrative it's just a plot device to have Russia invade America.A plot device that fails because it has more holes than any of the civilians you shot" 10/10
Man that scene made my jaw drop as I watched in disbelief at the dumbest plot device I had ever seen in a game OR movie! It made absolutely no sense lol! Anyone with an IQ above 70 should realize that if something like that happened Russia/US would do a joint investigation immediately, and would never go to war over something like this even if it WAS an attack from the US. Hell does anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis where the US and Russia refused to nuke each other even after Korea, the bay of pigs, and tons of posturing?! P.S. An aerial paratrooper invasion of the US? smh
Tom, I honestly think the Wolverines mission, from the paratroopers to the BTR to the setting in the suburbs, was just an excuse for a Red Dawn reference and nothing more.
David Laush And I have no problem with that at all. Some of the missions in MW2 if left alone were pretty cool. But they insisted on tying them together with a full plot line and intentionally controversial BS. That ruins everything, and imo proves they were just throwing darts at a board and hoping we didn't notice they didn't stick.
A lot of this is likely due to Activision interfering. In 2007 when COD4 was released Infinity Ward became Activision's premier focus and they likely began to take a much more micromanaging approach to the studio. In 2009 Activision ended up firing Infinity Ward founders after the founders said Activision was running a "police state" and stopped paying their royalties to the founders which is resulted in a lawsuit. I personally believe that even though MW2 came out before 2009 the series wasn't that far off and I think that Activision is likely the main culprit.
well thanks to that we got titanfall 2 which was such a pleasant surprise to me i couldn't believe it. it actually is probably in my top 5 (or at least top 10) fps campaigns of all time. it's really fucking great. it sucks the game did not get the success it deserved.
I couldn't get attached to the Campaign in T2, enjoyed the first one enough and loved the Multiplayer in both - obviously being what Infinity Ward do best. But yeah... Activision man, they've been the downfall of so many series and great companies, their latest target being Bungie.
They force their developers to puke out new games at a pace that forces them to compromise on gameplay and creativity, while simultaneously burning out the video gaming public on said games. COD is just one example. The did the same with Bungie and the Destiny series, Guitar Hero, and the Tony Hawk games.
BO2 was the last good game for me Edit: I actually liked Advanced Warfare's multiplayer when it came out, back when exo suits were new. I really didn't mind the futuristic setting but like most cod players I got sick of the futuristic setting after BO3. I still have a lot of good memories of walking home from school, opening a big bag of popcorn, and binging AW. I also didn't think the exo zombies was that bad, granted it wasn't anything compared to maps like Shangri La, Nacht De Untoten, and Origins but it was still fun.
I finished the entire game in one sitting and don't remember what I played. Black Ops is good but BO2 is forgettable. Never played any new COD game after that.
I think the last GOOD campaign in the series was Black Ops 1, actually one of the better ones. The gritty alt history setting and subtle political commentary created a really interesting campaign if you focus on digesting all of the small details that made the narrative what it is.
BO2 was really good I think. BO3’s could have been good if it wasn’t in the series because it didn’t even connect to BO2. I have some bias as that was the best time of my life playing BO2.
tteggad i dont think ive ever finished it for some reason. ive always re started it but never got to finishing. but for the most part, it was pretty good. The worst campaign was probably bo3
My Goodness! Exactly what I was thinking. From his use of several of their terms, from explicitly saying "fully automatic sub-machine gun" at 3:15 to 1:30 where he "fully admit(s) to having a personal bias". At 4:50 he sights Wiki. Also at 4:34 "Re-dick-alus". I dont like the way he, sarcastically, says "Being the heroic American soldier you are" at 8:03 .
Man, the blood effects that cover the screen when you get hit in modern COD are so exaggerated compared to COD 2. It makes things hard to see, I don't understand how anyone thought it was a good idea.
World at war had a really great campaign, voice acting was super intense and loud, the music made each gunfight so much better and the large scale missions with the red army going URAAA was just so fucking intense And the gore was fucking awesome
had so many chills down me when I got to put that soviet flag up on the reichstag on that last mission I didnt know till doing some research recently that the music playing when you put the flag down was the Soviet Unions national anthem Now thats paying attention to detail we need change call of duty needs a fresh start.
It's crazy to think that 12 year old children were using xbox 360 controllers to drone strike each other in war video games, and now they're grown ups using xbox 360 controllers to bomb schools and the occasional enemy.
@@teabaggins771 If you don't like what buildings our forces have to destroy in order to win fights, go tell groups like ISIS to stop using hospitals and schools to shoot as us from. It would save us from having to rebuild them.
Robert Wilson III ever heard of hostage rescue operations? Its when you send actual soldiers into a building instead of drone striking it. “WhY wOuLd We WaStE oUr SoLdIeRs ThErE” if you’re fighting such a war that you don’t consider collateral damage at all, then you’ll count bodies in thousands and wont even notice when a battalion gets fucked storming math class on the fourth floor. Which of course you’re not, so shut up.
Wait. Did an analysis of Modern Warfare and others which can be dubbed to be of Surgical Precision but why no mention of Black Ops? The Numbers, Mason!
The whole video is pretty lackluster. I can understand skipping MW3 and on, but he doesn't even mention CoD 1, 3, or Black Ops. It looks like he just cherry-picked the games that fit his thesis without observing the whole series.
Well COD1 is not much more than MOHAA with more friendly AI. Dunno about 3 since I never played it. BO1's story was all over the place, but gameplay-wise felt between MW1 and 2.
i still love the MW2 campaign. It's mostly due to nostalgia, as I remember playing the first few levels of the game with my cousin. We didn't have good wifi so we just sat around playing "Team Player" over and over again. Looking at MW's campaign, it does feel more like a real event rather than a hollywood shooter on rails, compared to -the cliffhanger- some scenes of MW2. But I still really like the campaign, although if IW had stuck with the less action movie paced singleplayer similar to the previous game, I think the singleplayer would have been a better experience.
American levels like "exodus" and "wolverines" are my favorite levels in the game, because they aren't the usually micheal Bay explosion simulator, they resemble reality more
The problem is that it doesn’t fit with Cod 4. How did Price go from just being a Captain within the SAS to being the leader of the ultra, super, unstoppable team of badasses? We went from escaping an army of insurgents in the end to taking on an army of super secret elite soldiers in the end. It just doesn’t work. MW2 feels like a fan fiction that someone wrote, with over the top heroes, over the top villains, over the top scenarios, and over the top gameplay. MW2 in my opinion, is one of the most overrated games of all time. Captain Price went from someone we followed and respected in CoD 4 to someone who’s constantly being a badass. “Let’s give the finger to Command!” “Let’s go blow up D.C!” “Lets make a monologue about killing Shepherd like Captain America!”
The original Call of Duty with the United Offensive expansion pack is irrefutably the best Call of Duty there ever was. I wish they did a remaster of that game.
I remember it. It's fun on Heroic. On Veteran you clearly hate yourself b/c there's not even a single health pack on that level. UO is even worse on Veteran.
The original call of duties gave me a deep respect for WW2, a respect and interest I still very much hold to this day.(My first one was COD: Finest Hour) It made me get a somewhat feeling how of soldiers may have felt, fighting for your brothers beside you , fighting for the greater good, and answering your nation's Call of Duty. The average joe fighting with his band of brothers. Now however, the series has digressed into an action movie/ super soldier/ rambo/ Terminator/ Sci fi monster. Losing many of its founding values and the identity that gave the series its legs. I have no idea if COD is losing its popularity sales wise, with the recent release of Infinite Warfare, but at a personal level most everyone I know who loved and played COD, including myself, has stopped buying it with the last couple or so recent entries. The last time ALL my friends had the same COD was MW2. I believe it's time to go back and touch on what made COD what it was, because at this rate, the future tech and action movie like gameplay, leaving players dry. Washed out on un-innovative gameplay and story. BF1 received a reception that no battlefield before has received. And I believe thats due to it winding back to clock, rather than advance it. Change the mechanics, story and gameplay. Give the game a soul, and not the identity of just another entry in the series. (Although I am critical they still role with the whole Premium system and 4 DLC pack structure, but COD isnt very different in that case either.) I wanna go back to the days when my 10 year old self would feel chills everytime he started the game. ua-cam.com/video/9RvmYHmyoj4/v-deo.html
Wow. Very true same. Were we separated at birth or something? Because we had basically the exact same experience, right on down to Finest Hour being our first CoD. I even linked the same video in my own analysis of it. I have not played BF1 yet, but I have certainly been interested in it for a long, long time.
CoD and CoD:UO are some of my most played games of all time. I skipped until WaW when my roommates in college had that and played the rest from there. I was a fan of the Black Ops Campaign and the revolutionary points system to creating a class. I think that made for specialized multiplayer loadouts. As far as multiplayer goes though, I think the main problem has been with the ever shrinking map. The smallest map from CoD feels bigger than the biggest current maps. When a sniper had more than 30' in front of him to actually get some good shots off. Not only that but the faster movement and the super soldier mentality makes the maps feel even smaller. I think this is a big reason why the BF franchise has stayed fun. In BF4, my friends and I used to set up on other sides of the map and snipe each other at ranges of 1km+. You would never see this kind of range in modern CoD's. From a single payer standpoint, the earlier games had the feel of fighting your way through enemies and advancing on an objective whereas the CoD's became a James Bond kind of parody of warfare. I haven't played through the whole campaign for BF1 yet, but that first mission is intense. I thought i was doing it wrong when I died , and then the name and years popped up and soldiers were humanized again.
I agree with a lot of this, but I absolutely cannot agree with your opinions on MW2 and how that was the start of the down fall. That was when the game improved on every level and grew the fanbase even more. Black Ops after that had the most thought provoking plot in the series. I think the downfall started for the series at MW3, with it being noticeably below MW2's quality. Call of Duty never set out to be a war simulator. It's a casual arcade shooter with story driven singleplayer and fast pace arena multiplayer.
What are you talking about? Cod has never nor should it ever be considered a war simulator. He was saying that the earlier games were a depiction of war. Their campaigns intentionally put you in the shoes of some Joe Shmoe, and not some badass action hero as a way of showing the more brutal side of war. While the writing was not always top notch, the campaigns were also fun/challenging while also being thought provoking. While MW2 wasn’t bad by any means, there was definitely a shift, not only in the campaign, but in the philosophy of the game as well. There was the already mentioned shift in the campaign, but what I really think started cod on its downward spiral was its shift from a focus in a balance between singleplayer and multiplayer to a focus on multiplayer. This definitely started with MW2
Agreed as far as the general quality of the game, but as far as what he's saying, he's right. I love MW2 beyond any game in the series and it houses my favorite campaign ever as well. But, it is a clear departure when it comes from style. Ray focused exponentially more on the campaigns of the games and practically ignored multiplayer, which has been the main selling point since CoD4. On that front and the overall tone shift of campaigns, he's right. But you're also right that on the multiplayer side of things, MW2 was leaps and bounds the best game of the series in terms of meaningful innovation and improvement. I would agree that MW3 felt like the first downward spiral. It seems like it set out to improve upon MW2's formula, but instead, ended up copying it and changing just a little bit but not in a good way. It removed a lot of the fun and sterilized the experience.
I'd agree with you. It can be said that MW3 is where things went south with the departure of many key developers leaving to start respawn entertainment. As far as I remember.
Totally agree. I was skeptical when BO2 was announced but was blown away by how well they did the whole futuristic aspect because it wasn't so far into the future that it was ridiculous like BO3 or 4
Koweden “got too fuckin clever” except everyone was crying about how repetitive cod was, and people were hyped for advanced warfare, and BO3 is the only cod post MW3 that has had an increase in sales, the game with jet packs and q to win abilities
"Call of Duty 2 isn't a power trip of an FPS. It's about being just another soldier on the battlefield. And in my opinion, it's the best game to achieve this since it's release." Play Red Orchestra 2 on a full server then. You're tone will shift faster than you can say "The Germans are over there". If you don't know where your enemies are in that game, you will die so fast it's unbelievable.
Raycevick Red Orchestra 2 does have singleplayer..but....it's let down by the AI. I've been killed very few times even on the hardest difficulty. But when it was...I bled out. Either than or was noscoped by a bot that was shooting at one of my teammates.
General Wise: RO2's singleplayer is a travesty with a horrible framerate and the decision to make it so that you play mix and match classes. What the single player should be is a tutorial on how to play the different roles against decent bots. Each battle should have been focused on a new role, totalling about maybe twelve-twenty four missions (forgot how many roles there were). The final mission should you practicing how to command your squad/team and thus ensuring there are less noobs who just want the submachine gun in the multiplayer.
One thing I find hilarious is that when World at War came out, Japan was offended by being portrayed that way, but in the words of Ian 'Idubbbz' Carter "(We) don't portray you that way, you portray yourself that way".
Are you stupid? The game sledgehammer was making at the time of this video was AW2, that comment was completely true for two years after this video was published
@@thatrileyguy Because a katana wielding BRITISH officer, and a badass female *with a prosthetic arm* is ww2 by every definition and accuracy. Fuck off. Alternate history is not history.
THANK YOU for bringing up the fact that battlefield was first to the modern scene in this "war" that the fanboys take part in. I'm so sick of idiots who claim that COD was first and I don't even play either anymore
Don't forget that there was the modern warfare mod for BF1942 called Desert Warfare, and was what actually ultimately inspired BF2. Heck, DICE even hired the guys who created that mod to work on BF2 with them, but when EA became DICE's publisher, they took that team of modders away from the DICE team to form another studio and pretty much destroyed them :/ So yeah, you have a bunch of blokes who created a mod for BF1942 to thank for CoD4
TheMCJarhead But.... no BF games are considered on of the greatest games ever. COD 4 is. While I do agree with you on it being inspired by '42, COD 4 has influenced FAR more games than any BF game.
Wow! I came here from you series on COG and i can't believe that your content has only 2000 views, your clearly very skilled and your content is always in depth and of a great quality, you deserve so much more attention, keep up the good work man!
Man I really hope they’ve finally realized where they went wrong, it’s not too late to fix it, the campaign is already said to make MW2 look like child’s play, and the few you tubers who have played it agree, it’s gut wrenching compared to MW2, I’m so excited for October 25th, the only thing that would destroy the game at this point and has me worried sick is the micro transactions, Activision is a bitch, BO4 made Activision 800 million in its first 3 months, there’s not question that there’s going to be micro transactions, only how it’s implemented
@@NightMythHunter I'm more worried they are going to have even more OMFG moments like how Raycevick described the Nuclear bomb scene in MW4 (and subsequently how MW2 had too much of those with little subtlety), because if they can't balance the style with substance it won't be truly engaging.
I enjoyed them but id be lying if I said they were anything more than a generic action movie, which honestly is fine cod isnt about the campaign that isnt their goal although they seem to have tried with mw 2019
MW2 is like the first transformers, dumb but still a lot of fun, but also created a shitty series to come in which each subsequent entry becomes worse and worse although black ops 1 was still really good
@@Katky1 tom clancy is more of a techno thriller modern warfare style. I actually started reading tom clancy books because of it gave nostalgic feelings like CoD4.
@@williamfrost8081 I think the newers Tom Clancy games are techno thriller games like CoD4, but the originals (before Rainbow Six Vegas) felt alot more like simulation games like what CoD2 was trying to be
"These teams of talented and creative individuals are spending thousands of hours and millions of dollars to make a 60$ edition of Simon says. Call of duty hasn't been releasing the same game for the last ten years, what is has been selling is a shell of it's former self, a former self that used to be respected." Couldn't of worded it better myself..
I likely will, as I heard it's actually solid. Hiring people from Naughty Dog tends to do that. Hopefully I'll be able to purchase it sometime this year.
I agree with most of the video, very well done. However, I disagree with the dismissal of Modern Warfare 2's 'No Russian' level. I believe it was one of the franchise's finest ludo-narrative moments, perhaps even its last moment of ludo-narrative brilliance. I find it an excellent commentary on a matter that many people around the world in the early 21st century have grown to fear, acts of domestic terrorism. The first Modern Warfare did an excellent job of depicting the big elephant in the room for its time, the War on Terror, something most people around the world could relate to in one way or another. It's current, it's relevant, and it was captured in game design. But that was terrorism far overseas, Modern Warfare 2 depicted terrorism that was closer to home. What I mean is most people won't see the battlefields of Iraq, but there are a large number of people who visit airports several times a year. What I admired most about 'No Russian' is how its game design only told the player to 'Follow the "Bad Guys" lead', and that's it. It never forced anyone to shoot or kill anyone (until later when the police and security arrive, at which point the level then turns into a more traditional shooter level unfortunately). The pressure to fit in, to 'save the many by sacrificing the few', is not only on the character at the time, but on the player as well, which is well done. I see Modern Warfare as displaying how much war has changed and stayed the same since WWII. The lines are much more fuzzy between right and wrong in this modern age as compared to the more black-and-white (American/Russians/Good Guys vs Nazis/Japanese/Bad Guys) conflicts of the past, its was just the rules of war back then, it was much more clearly defined (though there is still the grey element inherent to war itself, such as the Russian soldiers burning the surrendering Nazis alive in World at War, something that most all prior Call of Duty games emphasized brilliantly). I see 'No Russian' as truly nailing in the point of just how grey modern conflict has become, the lines between right and wrong, or even who's side we're fighting for. That's how I read the scene, I didn't see it as a desperate attempt to one-up itself and just be shock value. I thought it was quite brave and a damning realization of the world we live in today. Besides that, I agree with much of this video, nice job mate!
call of duty 4 was my absolute favorite!playing as the S.A.S totally changed the way i played the game. no longer running into a room and spraying everything in sight with one long unrelenting trigger pull i began taking short controlled bursts using every last bullet with godly precision. truly felt one with the mission. its been years since i last gamed and watching this video gave me so much nostalgia. literally itching to buy a console!
+Brandon Ferguson They feel that way because of the name COD built and youtube, video games, social media etc. were exploding in popularity. But, their opinions aren't truth. The truth is what this guy said in his video; mw2 was the clear initial mark of laziness and bad design that call of duty would continue to show to this day.
After watching this video, I feel that the final scene in World at War when you raise the Soviet flag over the Reichstag building is a symbolic end to classic Call of Duty.
Broke my first controller playing MW2. It was so infuriating to play honestly. The multiplayer was actually still pretty great, but the story was so braindead that I never felt a reason to want to keep playing it.
God. The opening of MOH Allied Assault will forever live with me as one of the greatest moments in gaming. It was like playing the opening of saving private ryan.
What I liked about it was that the plot twist surrounded the main character as opposed to some random general nobody gave a crap about and then you start replaying all the levels in your head as you have a "holy shit" moment. Also, I'll never forget crouching through the trenches in Vietnam only to poke my head up and see hundreds if not thousands of North Vietnamese soldiers rushing at me. EEEEEEEPIC!!!
CoD1, Cod:UO, CoD: Finest Hour (best Soundtrack in any COD, hands down), and CoD:Big Red One are my absolute favorites. I think they're the peak of the series.
"Quickscoping" and "Noscoping" and various cancerous memes were made really popular with Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer. No wonder its the most "dank" COD game, and its elements (like the M200 Intervention rifle) are used for endless MLG parodies.
They were a result of not being as fast-paced as many arena shooters so people had to come up with new ways to show skill. It's admirable but yes, they're kinda annoying.
Too be fair, there were plenty of good noscopers from COD4 who were just people who learned how to use rifles from earlier WWII games or just loved it in COD4 who were actually talented zzirGrizz comes to mind of course. But what happened at MW2 is that so many 12 year olds all of a sudden thought they could be a MLG quickscoper and with the help of extreme aim assist and an IQ much less then 70 they became the stereotypical COD sqeakers we know today. Plus the fact that everyone with half a brain started bailing to BFBC2 when MW2 started going to shit. That helped to concentrate the morons. The noobs were always there but there were a lot of normal players also so it was at least balanced out, when MW2 went downhill they were the only ones stupid enough to keep playing, so they are the ones people associated with Post MW2 COD.
Ghost You actually believe it’s going to be a good game? Just because it’s from the modern warfare series? Micro transactions are going to be in the game. Supply drops are going to be in the games. It’s finna be shit
Conner Neal l think he is using the age of "12" as a figure of speech. Like how most people use the age of 12 as an exaggeration of someone being young. He talks about his first timr playing Halo at age 12 when it came out. He says the same thing about Call of Duty 2 at age 12. Even though Halo and Call of Duty 2 came out 4 years apart
Mw2 was amazing. The campaign, the weapons, the graphics, etc. I'll never forgot all the SnD matches I played, and the discussions in the game chat. The only problems I had with the game was the noobtubers, one man army perk, and the danger close perk. So many playstyles. UMP45 and Dual Wielding Rangers, Riot Shield with a SPAS-12, Using cold blooded perk with silenced weapons, etc. The maps were amazing as well.
"But for the game's message, that heroics don't result in success" Just finished playing Spec Ops: The Line yesterday, this phrase literally resumes all of that game.
We're the same age :D lol, also COD2 was my first Call of Duty game as well alongside my new Xbox 360. I was the happiest kid in the world that Christmas.
I was absolutely in love with every call of duty until ghosts.. Since then I feel like I lost something very dear and close to me 😢 please be the game we need MW4
You were right on the money with this. MW2 was the last CoD game for me, because I saw where the franchise was heading; I am surprised it took until BO4 to see it realized though.
CoD4 doesn't have a satisfying ending? What more do you want? The ending was arguably the best part of the story. Despite what seemed like a most certain, soon and inevitable demise, you still gave that bastard a solid FU and shot him. It was deeply satisfying.
Black ops 2 was the last one that I enjoyed and the last one that I bought... When it comes to multiplayer and zombies, that was when it peaked, I already gave up on CoD after Mw3, but Bo2 brought me back for one year... Of course, the year after that it was fish AI time, so I never even considered buying it after that...
Annoys me how vCoD (CoD 1, released 2003) gets so LITTLE credit. To this day, vcod, along with it's expansion pack United Offensive, was not only my childhood, but to this day one of the best WW2 shooters to ever be released. Story was excellent, missions varied, and the multiplayer was amazing. Im not seeing this through rose tinted glasses either, I regularly played call of duty online until around about 2011, after having played for 8 years.
Agreed. COD 1 came first and 2 and 3 were just attempts to improve it requiring less imagination and creativity. Indeed, they wouldn't even have been possible if not for the success and quality of the first game.
My exact thoughts! I loved the CoD:MW, enjoyed the campaign to the last minute of it, and had a wonderful "after effect" later on. The "All Ghillied Up" level alone had a strong cinematic (almost movie-like) plot and setting. But when I started to play CoD:MW2 - I felt like the game's "quality bar" has been severely lowered, because instead of clever (yet, linear, ofc) decisions, the game had a "Oh, look, more enemies. Go on ... shoot them." vibe. But I completed the game nonetheless. And then I played CoD:MW3. The urge to ragequit was strong. It clearly was not the Modern Warfare game I played in the past. I finished it just to "close" the game series (MW one), while I wasn't enjoying the game itself. Not a single bit.
I think I played Black Ops 2 partway on PC; it had some okay stuff in the beginning on the flashback levels. The intro in Africa was frustrating but an interesting mix-up to see a straight, open-field battle from all directions. Then there was the level where you hijack a river boat and find your buddy in a bloody prisoners' hold. The game lost me right around the future-day Myanmar level where you're breaking into sci-fi shit; not because I don't like sci-fi, but because the coolest parts of the level were the parts where I wasn't allowed to do anything.
I don't really agree with his assessment of MW2. I LOVE Cod 4's gritty aesthetic, but MW2's insane action-movie campaign was an absolute blast. So many great missions and moments. It is for sure where the franchise began to decline. They have continually tried to recreate the Micheal Bay aspects of MW2 by amping up the explosions/set pieces, but none of it hits the way MW2 does.
mw2 is a great idea for a game but the problem is that its not cod or at least is not what cod was at the time. Cod was a game that wanted you to stay back, to survive. Mw2 was a game that wanted you to push in like a hero. The problem is that mw2 uses that same regnerative healing mechanic that cod used to keep players in cover. This means that mw2 wants you to both push in and stay back. This is a textbook example of ludonarrative dissonance and it stops the game from being either a phenomenal action game or a phenomenal war simulator. It is stuck in a zone where it can be a good game but not a great one. The downfall of cod really happened when they forgot that shooters were only fun when they required a little bit of skill. So on rails turret sections where there is no threat whatsoever and whatever it is you are doing is unimportant because the enemies are useless towards you arnt fun.
@@cSoLo Trash games, Treyarch are the actual REASON the game died. Ignore the biased video that fails to acknowledge the more important parts of multiplayer games. They added lag compensation. That was what drove more and more people away from what used to be a reward for reaction game, to a reward for higher ping. That's the least competitive thing you can do to any game and is about as smart as eating raw meat.
@@CritirusSo you are saying that a game franchise died just because two games had a LITTLE inferior servers? Bo1 & 2 are some of the best selling and highest rated CoD-games ever, and for a good reason.
@@Critirus no, I blame infinity ward. At least BO had some grit and was grounded, but then mw2 comes along and now every game after is like an exact rehash with futuristic elements just being duplicated, it barely takes place in our time anymore.
I thought that MW2 was amazing, I still play it. I do agree with most of what you said, but I personally absolutely loved the first two Black Ops games. You didn't even mention them, they did do the whole 1 man army thing, but it was a hell of a lot more believable, as the missions were stealthy and most of the enemies you killed were from an ambush or stealth position catching them off guard, making it more viable. The stories and acting were incredible and were mostly based with the backdrop of actual events that are rarely explored in video games.
Beard Hitbox TV You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it; and yeah, it takes some time to edit these sort of videos , but there's some kind of strange enjoyment when you've finally completed it.
CuHnadian It was really interesting this video, I really want a sequel to it you didn't talk about MW3 and the rest. You can also talk about the things that happened with Infinity Ward with MW2 were the studio left, and then MW3 was rushed. I'm subbed.
Yara Van Snelle While I would like to go more in-depth with MW2, MW3, Black Ops, Ghosts and Advanced Warfare, I feel like people have covered most of what I would critique. Perhaps someday I'll revisit them, but I'm sure I'll be using COD as an example of something in future videos. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the subscription.
I'd like to thank UA-cam for finally recommended this to me.. I'm getting old now and I'm from the days of the original Age of Empires, Rainbow Six, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament, And Quake 3. Rainbow Six was probably my most played ( clan ladder), But CoD 2 was my favorite CoD by far. Modern Warfare was good too but CoD 2 would immerse you in war. I have tried all of the newer CoD's and i just can't do it, The pacing is terrible and it doesn't feel epic. Medal of honor, CoD 2 was so Epic I have never felt so hopeless against the onslaught but to somehow make it out alive to the next mission. they really gave you the feeling of war. As in the newer games i feel BF1 ( not 1942, which btw was awesome with desert combat mod) and BF V bring back a little bit of the same feeling in the campaign. My son is 17 now and he always ask me for the new CoD and i just can't buy it for him. I tell him to play the old ones for a real true experience. Of course thats not good enough cause his friends play the newest ones. I really don't know where we are headed with games anymore as all the best games have been watered down to yearly releases with basically the same everything with new skins. I feel like the last really good games were Raven Shield ( Rainbow Six 3), BF2 from major publishers due to just trying to make quick money on all the newer ones. I play Star Citizen because it actually has huge ambition that games in the past had and is no longer seen from developers.
love the comment man, sometime i feel like doing the same thing, play the game i play haha. these games coming out doesn't seem right and loosing so much values of identity and not sticking to the core. now its feel like, do whatever its flashy and trendy that make money. the problem is people are buying the game and supporting these type of game. so the company will continue to make these game until they see negative in their profit. this mean there is a big community that like those games. I feel were getting to old for the generation and are standards is not respected in today gaming.
SirWes Yeah. I get that you are nostalgic but just because you like the older games doesn’t mean a 17 year old will share the same opinion. He might even look back and see the newer games the same way you see the older ones
I miss the anti-war quotes from the old one when you die. The one that stuck with me the most was from call of duty 4 "the cost of a single javelin missile, 75000 dollars". I remember when I first saw that as a teenager. Here I was shooting these thing's off like no tomorrow. Hell, in the mission leading up to "the bog" i had shot like seven of them in a matter of minutes. $75000 dollars a missile, it stuck with me, how many people had I killed with that money that could have been used to help people. I knew it was a video game sure but that simple message made me realize the expense of war not just in lives lost but in lost opportunity to do good.
oh, and don't even get me started on world at war. There were so many moments in that game that made me stop and question what I was doing. Made me question if I was the good guy or not. The two I remember the most is the part of the mission when you first land on pelalu and send in a rocket attack on the Japanese defenses, then you go over your cover... dozens of dead or dying men everywhere. I remember bayoneting the first few because game's always taught me to kill bad guy's but after the first few I coudent do it anymore. I just slowly walked through hearing them cry in pain wishing the game would let me help them. The next one was during the Russian attack on berlin. I shot a german point blank with a double barrel shot gun. just as i was about to turn away and keep fighting when I noticed what id done, what i had been doing. The german chest was torn open, his arm was missing and half his face was gone. That was the first time in a video game I'd ever felt like I'd actually done something truly wrong, something inhuman. I stood there and stared at the germans body for what felt like forever as my comrades shot and yelled around me. It was as though at that moment I realized what I had been doing the whole game. I had been killing people and enjoying it. How many people had i left mutilated like this german before me without noticing it. how many people had i killed in my blind enjoyment, I knew that this realization should have hit me sooner in the game but it toke this moment to finally make me realize how absent-mindedly id been playing the game and how little respect I had given to what I was doing. They were virtual lives to be certain but in that single moment, I felt like a monster.
MW4 really changed my view because of those quotes. Hell, the multiplayer was good fun, but the Singleplayer was a pure cinematic masterpiece where no one really won.
ralife11379 Man, write a
book. This was amazing to read.
Another great quote is from world of war "I can promise you a medal, a body-bag or both"
ralife11379 You are one true of *Medal of honor*
"When I was 12 I shot my first nazi"
They were drafting those kids young
Slim Yoshi I was about 7 when I shot mine because I played Medal of Honor with my father
lol
which is a really stupid comment and true. but i guess that's NA education. We are good , They are bad. Problem solved
@@flycrack7686 aight
I became part of a terrorist attack in russia just at 6
Thanks for waiting 4 years to recommend this video to me, UA-cam.
Facts XD
Yeah
I feel, i feel
Same
Oh shit... i didnt realize it was released in 2015 until I saw this comment :P
"Modern Warfare 2 is Modern Warfare on a week-long cocaine binge"
-The Act Man
One of the most underrated person ever
I agree, but I don't think the Act Man is the most reliable information source
@@Steppa_61 he's not a person he's a *performing* *human* *of* *the* *male* *gender*
@@andrewmoore7022 NO HES A WHITE PRIVILEGED MALE AND AS SJWs WE MUST STOP HIM!!!!!
@@Steppa_61 absolutely
to quote Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation in one of his modern COD reviews, ''if the nuke moment from Modern Warfare 1 was done in the current games, your character would just stand up, fart out all the radiation and remove the shards of glass off his eyes while heroic patriotic dubstep music played in the background''
Which one of his videos was that from?
Ghosts.
Cadrian I'm pretty sure you misquoted that, he says "take the shards of glass out of your eyes and shiv the ayatollah" instead of the dubstep stuff. Your one is nearly as good though hahah
If it was done today you'd black out as the bomb dropped.
...and the end of the mission would be a paid DLC pack.
7.62 x39mm :(
*"These teams of talented and creative individuals are spending thousands of hours and millions of dollars to make a $60 edition of Simon Says."* (17:28)
-Perfectly summarized the franchise.
Sums up MW2 pretty well. "Rameirez! Get on that turret." "Rameirez! Use the predator!"
Tkat You didn't have to shout like a lunatic, nor use autism as an insult. Because of those things, I will consider you a complete idiot.
Yeah, I hate how realistic it is too! Man, in real war, you don't have someone shouting orders at you. I just want to run around a map with no clear mission or directive.
If you're playing CoD for realism, I hate to tell you this but... it isn't an accurate depiction of warfare.
I hate to tell you this but if you're playing any game to simulate warfare, it isn't an accurate depiction.
And now Black Ops 4 will have no story mode, oh how far we've come
Black Ops 4's story mode will still be an improvement over Black Ops 3's.
i guess
very far
I think one point he kind of missed is that after Modern Warfare 2 COD became primarily a multiplayer shooter game where the campaign is just a bonus and not the main course. Many players didn't even touch campaign or if they did it was only after enjoying many hours of multiplayer already. Hence Black ops 4 not even having a campaign
I actually think that works, as now they could focus the multiplayer on COD:BLOPS while trying to make a better story experience in the main games. Plus, it looks as though it will have that balls to the walls feel of MW2
it will have specialist campaigns and don't forget the masterpiece called treyarch zombies
I'm still surprised he didn't mention Captain Price torturing and executing Al-Assad.
Wheter he's biased or just forgot abou that
That's the mission were he stopped playing to make this video, so he probably forgot about it
What they did to Rojas in MW2 was worse, electricity shoved into your nipples is a bad day
@@looinrims Rojas' right hand man to be precise
*You’re never too young to have a ww2 flashback*
Nothing is more terrifying in CoD than German MGs and Japanese Banzai charge
A very underrrated typical oldschool COD fan quote said ever
cod is like fast and furious
starts realistic, then goes batshit crazy
lmao, i know what you mean but fast n furious was never realistic
iDoPlayThroughs a gang of street racers pulling off heists and getting away from the cops , seems legit
M8 your comment is literally right under the person you copied for me, ironic isn't it
So will happen to GTA
if you said milk it to death since one main actor had a tragic accident you'd be right
The slow hollowing of Call of Duty can be gauged through their shifted commitment from a campaign-centric game to a multiplayer-centric game. In MW1 and WAW and to a lesser degree MW2, you had a crossing of these two where both were strong, now that shift has gone to multiplayer and don't get me started on zombies.
MST3Killa You didn't like Black Ops campaign?
Get started on zombies
Lol zombies has always been the best part of Call of Duty anyway
zombies was a great addition, it was unique something new for COD players, mainly with blops and waw
>Best part of Call of Duty
Seriously?
You could that nuke scene is the best cutscene in the history of COD
and I'd say All Ghillied Up is the best mission in the history of COD
YES
I think MW2’s flare scene is slightly over it. Still an amazing scene though.
Blank Blank I feel that Cleanhouse in mw2019 is also up there with Cod 4
ian arboleda yea that entire level is like so emotional bc you’re fighting to make sure you don’t die to your own people, but i wouldn’t rank it over the nuke scene from cod 4, that just brings back a lot more memories from me bc i used to ply that level over and over just for that
God, i hate that mission.
One point that I think you missed that shows much the series change MW 1 was the lack of quotes upon death. Pretty every game before (or at least I remember) had a anti war message quote displayed for a few second before you respawn.
It always stuck with me and help give that feeling that you really just die. Won't find that in the new ones at all.
MediaFREAKED you only ever found that in Infinity Ward games and you still do.
sXeGreatness Really? I was pretty sure they stopped at World at war completely. I don't remember there being any quotes in MW2 or ghosts
MediaFREAKED yeah it was in MW2 and MW3. i think Ghosts as well, i can't really remember. i didn't play Ghosts much. they're in Infinite Warfare though
Except that in MW2 they had a fair amount of Pro-War and Patriotic quotes mixed in with the standard "war is hell" quotes.
BlueRose50 they're still quotes. i also want to add that Infinite Warfare's quotes aren't really quotes. it's just little facts about what happened or more back story to Infinite Warfare's story and whatnot. just realised that playing through it again
When people say "Modern Warfare is bad", what I feel they actually mean is, "What Modern Warfare did to the gaming industry is bad." And it's not even Modern Warfare's fault. Infinity Ward made a good game, and then every game developer, including Infinity Ward, forgot WHY it was good.
HQDefault multiplayer was unbalanced as hell though
super koopa 64 Yeah, I guess that's true. Whenever I play local multiplayer, we always mutually agree not to pick certain weapons.
HQDefault
the last straw for me was when they made goldeneye wii a CoD ripoff.
I wouldn't even argue that it's specifically Modern Warfare. FFVII was a massive deconstruction of most previous JRPGs at the time before everyone started making dark RPGs with angsty protagonists. The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen inspired an entire age of perpetually scowly gun and katana-toting comic book "heroes" who set out to be cooler and more effective than those goody two-shoes that preceded them. For every one creator who actually understands the work that inspired them there's 9 others who just blindly copy all the superficial elements.
super koopa 64 Honestly my view was completely the opposite in some ways. The thing I liked about modern warfare and mw2's multiplayer was that everything felt overpowered. If everything is overpowered though, nothing is overpowered. The multiplayer in those games worked and it felt good because bullets actually killed and the guns felt powerful to use. In comparison, the design of the newer games was terrible as far multiplayer gameplay. Maps got more and more convoluted and the guns felt and sounded more and more weak or like there was no purpose for them to exist other than "this gun is different than that gun"
War. War never changes...
but call of duty changes it’s depictions of war drastically.
A Kelp Shake
Cod waw : the Soviets grow more and more brutal and bloodthirsty as you progress through the campaign
Cod ww2 : look an all happy group of clichéd soldiers
A Kelp Shake now u got 111 likes hehehe
Just finished new vegas
"War...has changed." - Solid Snake
War changes constantly, it's literally measured in generations and they pass with exponential frequency as time passes.
"War never changes"
"Hold my beer" - Donald Trump, Space Force
@@PersonalMystery123 War changes multiple times between major wars and the public never bats an eye
Hell there are people who still don't realize that the USA can disable enemy nuclear sites while ours launch all day. We have heat weapons, laser weapons, sound weapons, and that's just the 50 year old crap we're allowed to see.
I like revisiting this video because it's the reason I even decided to play Call of Duty 2 in the first place. Now it's easily one of my favorite games in the series.
I like how he's still hearting recent comments. Great vid
Overall I absolutely agree with your sentiments. Call of Duty was, as you said, about being one soldier among many, fighting to survive brutal, massive battles. Newer Call of Duty games have definitely gone away from this path, but I'd say it didnt really get too far off course until MW3 or Black Ops 2.
While MW2 is easy to scapegoat for it's admittedly ridiculous story and abundance of setpeices, it remained true to CoD mostly through the US Army Ranger missions. You failed to mention that all the missions you pointed out that had restrictive cinematic gameplay were on the TF-141 side, designed to be more of an over-the-top action movie to contrast with the larger, more liberating battles on the Ranger side. There were also plenty of moments in other games that held on to CoD's formula, namely MW3's larger battles (especially in Germany).
You also completely omitted a game where the cinematic level of storytelling greatly enhanced the campaign, Black Ops. It was a gripping story full of intrigue that had a similar balance of insane setpieces and "grunt in a big battle" moments while still delivering an interesting character-driven storyline the likes of which CoD had never seen before.
slvrcobra1337 black ops 1 was one of my favorites due to the setting of Vietnam
Modern Warfare 2's plot is not ridiculous, it is one of the best in the series. While the overabundance of Michael Bay scenes are true, it stayed with a consistent storyline and a great villain."5 years ago, I lost 30,000 men in a blink of an eye…"
What?! MW2 was badass, it felt more realistic at the time because of the foreign affairs that were and still are happening in American, Russian and Middle Eastern countries. I think BO2 was when it got off course. Once you go futuristic, its very difficult to go back.
Ryan Atkinson i agree 100%
Moder Warfare 2 was the shit bro. It's by far my favorite Call of Duty game.
Remember when Zombies was an awesome Easter egg?
and now it's an awesome gamemode
@@Whatismusic123.... Is it though?
@@I_am_a_cat_ It is, best part of BO3. The only good part, in my opinion.
@@JH0207... What about bo4 tho?
@@I_am_a_cat_ BO4 is a peculiar case, zombies isn't terrible but I don't really care for the changes to the mechanics so I think it's meh, too early to tell as they haven't released any DLC, IX and Classified are good maps though. I think BO3 was better as it had the best and most maps. But unlike BO3, BO4 has 2 other modes that are worthwhile, so zombies has competition for best mode, making it less clear which is the best.
such underrated content, keep up the amazing videos, man!
Thanks! I'll be posting on this channel more when my Halo series on COG is done.
Is that the only series you are doing for COG?
I write reviews, previews, and other articles for them. The Halo series is entirely my content, it was just posted on there to get more views than on my own channel. I thought it'd be better for them to get a few hundred views instead of a couple dozen. But it's far exceeded my expectations.
Well it's a great series, are you currently working on a video for Halo 4?
Yes, and it's looking to be a long one.
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"The airport sequence that freaked everyone out when it got leaked online shrieks of desperation from the developers to make something more skull-splitting than the nuke scene.But it's nothing more than shock value,it's got nothing to say outside of the narrative and inside the narrative it's just a plot device to have Russia invade America.A plot device that fails because it has more holes than any of the civilians you shot"
10/10
Ciri I got through the level without firing a single shot. Just let the others do it for me.
Ciri He does not look into story
Man that scene made my jaw drop as I watched in disbelief at the dumbest plot device I had ever seen in a game OR movie! It made absolutely no sense lol! Anyone with an IQ above 70 should realize that if something like that happened Russia/US would do a joint investigation immediately, and would never go to war over something like this even if it WAS an attack from the US. Hell does anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis where the US and Russia refused to nuke each other even after Korea, the bay of pigs, and tons of posturing?!
P.S. An aerial paratrooper invasion of the US? smh
Tom, I honestly think the Wolverines mission, from the paratroopers to the BTR to the setting in the suburbs, was just an excuse for a Red Dawn reference and nothing more.
David Laush And I have no problem with that at all. Some of the missions in MW2 if left alone were pretty cool.
But they insisted on tying them together with a full plot line and intentionally controversial BS. That ruins everything, and imo proves they were just throwing darts at a board and hoping we didn't notice they didn't stick.
A lot of this is likely due to Activision interfering. In 2007 when COD4 was released Infinity Ward became Activision's premier focus and they likely began to take a much more micromanaging approach to the studio. In 2009 Activision ended up firing Infinity Ward founders after the founders said Activision was running a "police state" and stopped paying their royalties to the founders which is resulted in a lawsuit. I personally believe that even though MW2 came out before 2009 the series wasn't that far off and I think that Activision is likely the main culprit.
well thanks to that we got titanfall 2 which was such a pleasant surprise to me i couldn't believe it. it actually is probably in my top 5 (or at least top 10) fps campaigns of all time. it's really fucking great. it sucks the game did not get the success it deserved.
I couldn't get attached to the Campaign in T2, enjoyed the first one enough and loved the Multiplayer in both - obviously being what Infinity Ward do best.
But yeah... Activision man, they've been the downfall of so many series and great companies, their latest target being Bungie.
Noooo....you think??
They force their developers to puke out new games at a pace that forces them to compromise on gameplay and creativity, while simultaneously burning out the video gaming public on said games. COD is just one example. The did the same with Bungie and the Destiny series, Guitar Hero, and the Tony Hawk games.
BO2 was the last good game for me
Edit: I actually liked Advanced Warfare's multiplayer when it came out, back when exo suits were new. I really didn't mind the futuristic setting but like most cod players I got sick of the futuristic setting after BO3. I still have a lot of good memories of walking home from school, opening a big bag of popcorn, and binging AW. I also didn't think the exo zombies was that bad, granted it wasn't anything compared to maps like Shangri La, Nacht De Untoten, and Origins but it was still fun.
I finished the entire game in one sitting and don't remember what I played. Black Ops is good but BO2 is forgettable. Never played any new COD game after that.
@@ElamparithiK this 100 %. the original black ops still had that "oh shit" feeling to it. BO2 was a blur
Same thing for me. It was the last COD I was truly hyped for. I’ve hated every COD that released after it. MW is looking pretty good though.
Manager Boi agreed 👍🏼
The multiplayer was by far the best for me, I ended up getting pretty good and played competitively and still hold a 4.5
I think the last GOOD campaign in the series was Black Ops 1, actually one of the better ones. The gritty alt history setting and subtle political commentary created a really interesting campaign if you focus on digesting all of the small details that made the narrative what it is.
BO2 was really good I think. BO3’s could have been good if it wasn’t in the series because it didn’t even connect to BO2. I have some bias as that was the best time of my life playing BO2.
Nah Bo2
Nah BO2
A...Word War!?!??! Eh, ehhhhh!?!?!?!?
Don’t forget Mw3 and BO2
Black ops 1 was the last really good cod there is. Especially the campaign. The campaign was a masterpiece.
tteggad no. Every game after ghost doesn't count. Why? Because supply drops
tteggad i dont think ive ever finished it for some reason. ive always re started it but never got to finishing. but for the most part, it was pretty good. The worst campaign was probably bo3
John AppleSeed campaign idiot. not multiplayer.
John AppleSeed So supply drops ruin the campaign? Hah
Vicious Oz BO3 was just boring even with its really weird final missions.
First time I've ever seen Fox News talk about video games in a non-negative way.
true
Not Fox News. Fox Business.
My Goodness! Exactly what I was thinking. From his use of several of their terms, from explicitly saying "fully automatic sub-machine gun" at 3:15 to 1:30 where he "fully admit(s) to having a personal bias". At 4:50 he sights Wiki. Also at 4:34 "Re-dick-alus". I dont like the way he, sarcastically, says "Being the heroic American soldier you are" at 8:03 .
Now we see CNN and other leftist media outlets shit on video games, because they're supposedly sexist and misogynistic. Oh, how the times change.
Are you guys all butt-hurt because the soviets conquered the nazis?
Holy shit this aged amazingly
Man, the blood effects that cover the screen when you get hit in modern COD are so exaggerated compared to COD 2. It makes things hard to see, I don't understand how anyone thought it was a good idea.
World at war had a really great campaign, voice acting was super intense and loud, the music made each gunfight so much better and the large scale missions with the red army going URAAA was just so fucking intense
And the gore was fucking awesome
I always forget how good Waw's soundtrack was.
SassyTheSasquatch Yet when I played I didn't notice any of that shit. All I cared for was completing the campaign lol.
had so many chills down me when I got to put that soviet flag up on the reichstag on that last mission I didnt know till doing some research recently that the music playing when you put the flag down was the Soviet Unions national anthem Now thats paying attention to detail we need change call of duty needs a fresh start.
aha replay it and you really appreciate how good it is
Playing the campaign in veteran is the hardest thing ive done in cod to date
the Transition of Anti-War to Pro-War was too much...
it is all about Army Propaganda now.
"War is fun! so SIGN UP! :D"
It's crazy to think that 12 year old children were using xbox 360 controllers to drone strike each other in war video games, and now they're grown ups using xbox 360 controllers to bomb schools and the occasional enemy.
Like NCIS - law enforcement is all about getting innocent people to accept a plea bargain, or get sent to gitmo.
@@teabaggins771 bomb what schools dude? And please give me a good source and let it not be CNN
@@teabaggins771 If you don't like what buildings our forces have to destroy in order to win fights, go tell groups like ISIS to stop using hospitals and schools to shoot as us from. It would save us from having to rebuild them.
Robert Wilson III ever heard of hostage rescue operations? Its when you send actual soldiers into a building instead of drone striking it.
“WhY wOuLd We WaStE oUr SoLdIeRs ThErE” if you’re fighting such a war that you don’t consider collateral damage at all, then you’ll count bodies in thousands and wont even notice when a battalion gets fucked storming math class on the fourth floor.
Which of course you’re not, so shut up.
I feel like Tom Clancy's series are slowly becoming CoD, exhausting its creativity.
Tom Clancy cuối cùng và hay nhất tôi từng chơi là Blacklist :(
Rainbow Six Siege bears no relation to the book it is named after
Even in death, Clancy still ghost writes :(
"When I was 12 years old and I shot my first Nazi" feels man :'(
bah, young people, what about wolfenstein :)
yeahhhh damn you had me with wolfenstein damn i shot alot of nazis
The only good Wolfenstein was Return the Castle & Wolfenstein Enemy Territory.
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CK TV I was 9 or 10 Medal of Honer on the PS1
Wait. Did an analysis of Modern Warfare and others which can be dubbed to be of Surgical Precision but why no mention of Black Ops?
The Numbers, Mason!
devyanshu shekhar WHaT dO ThEY MeaN?
Cyphrix101 *ThE NuMMMMbbbbEEEErrrrSSSSS!!!!*
Nguyễn Hải Dương agreed. Black Ops 2 felt like a great ending to it.
Especially the good endings. Even if they werent explained very well.
The whole video is pretty lackluster. I can understand skipping MW3 and on, but he doesn't even mention CoD 1, 3, or Black Ops. It looks like he just cherry-picked the games that fit his thesis without observing the whole series.
Well COD1 is not much more than MOHAA with more friendly AI. Dunno about 3 since I never played it. BO1's story was all over the place, but gameplay-wise felt between MW1 and 2.
world at war was and still is my favorite call of duty
John Smith it's better than all this new shit
C.M Mendoza Nope. Advanced Warfare is easily the best one. Infinite Warfare being a close second.
Those two were a waste of my money
C.M Mendoza No, they weren't a waste of your money. They are the two best ones.
John Smith are you joking with me?
i still love the MW2 campaign. It's mostly due to nostalgia, as I remember playing the first few levels of the game with my cousin. We didn't have good wifi so we just sat around playing "Team Player" over and over again. Looking at MW's campaign, it does feel more like a real event rather than a hollywood shooter on rails, compared to -the cliffhanger- some scenes of MW2. But I still really like the campaign, although if IW had stuck with the less action movie paced singleplayer similar to the previous game, I think the singleplayer would have been a better experience.
American levels like "exodus" and "wolverines" are my favorite levels in the game, because they aren't the usually micheal Bay explosion simulator, they resemble reality more
The problem is that it doesn’t fit with Cod 4. How did Price go from just being a Captain within the SAS to being the leader of the ultra, super, unstoppable team of badasses? We went from escaping an army of insurgents in the end to taking on an army of super secret elite soldiers in the end. It just doesn’t work. MW2 feels like a fan fiction that someone wrote, with over the top heroes, over the top villains, over the top scenarios, and over the top gameplay. MW2 in my opinion, is one of the most overrated games of all time. Captain Price went from someone we followed and respected in CoD 4 to someone who’s constantly being a badass.
“Let’s give the finger to Command!”
“Let’s go blow up D.C!”
“Lets make a monologue about killing Shepherd like Captain America!”
Yeah, nostalgia is right
It’s bad, but everyone is too nostalgia blind to notice, but that’s okay
@@lol-un6nl more, but not well sadly
You don’t even learn who Raptor is, or why we care
WHY DOES NO ONE REMEMBER THE ORIGINAL CALL OF DUTY?! :(
I remember call of duty classic
My personal favorite.
The original Call of Duty with the United Offensive expansion pack is irrefutably the best Call of Duty there ever was. I wish they did a remaster of that game.
I remember it. It's fun on Heroic. On Veteran you clearly hate yourself b/c there's not even a single health pack on that level. UO is even worse on Veteran.
Lupis Corvus
They did, it came with MW2 if I recall correctly.
The original call of duties gave me a deep respect for WW2, a respect and interest I still very much hold to this day.(My first one was COD: Finest Hour) It made me get a somewhat feeling how of soldiers may have felt, fighting for your brothers beside you , fighting for the greater good, and answering your nation's Call of Duty. The average joe fighting with his band of brothers.
Now however, the series has digressed into an action movie/ super soldier/ rambo/ Terminator/ Sci fi monster. Losing many of its founding values and the identity that gave the series its legs. I have no idea if COD is losing its popularity sales wise, with the recent release of Infinite Warfare, but at a personal level most everyone I know who loved and played COD, including myself, has stopped buying it with the last couple or so recent entries. The last time ALL my friends had the same COD was MW2. I believe it's time to go back and touch on what made COD what it was, because at this rate, the future tech and action movie like gameplay, leaving players dry. Washed out on un-innovative gameplay and story.
BF1 received a reception that no battlefield before has received. And I believe thats due to it winding back to clock, rather than advance it. Change the mechanics, story and gameplay. Give the game a soul, and not the identity of just another entry in the series. (Although I am critical they still role with the whole Premium system and 4 DLC pack structure, but COD isnt very different in that case either.)
I wanna go back to the days when my 10 year old self would feel chills everytime he started the game.
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Wow. Very true same.
Were we separated at birth or something? Because we had basically the exact same experience, right on down to Finest Hour being our first CoD. I even linked the same video in my own analysis of it.
I have not played BF1 yet, but I have certainly been interested in it for a long, long time.
Eric Van De Hey Haha maybe man, maybe. I wouldnt be surprised if tons of others felt the same way we did. Old days were the best days.
I am sorry I can only give you one like...
CoD and CoD:UO are some of my most played games of all time. I skipped until WaW when my roommates in college had that and played the rest from there. I was a fan of the Black Ops Campaign and the revolutionary points system to creating a class. I think that made for specialized multiplayer loadouts. As far as multiplayer goes though, I think the main problem has been with the ever shrinking map. The smallest map from CoD feels bigger than the biggest current maps. When a sniper had more than 30' in front of him to actually get some good shots off. Not only that but the faster movement and the super soldier mentality makes the maps feel even smaller. I think this is a big reason why the BF franchise has stayed fun. In BF4, my friends and I used to set up on other sides of the map and snipe each other at ranges of 1km+. You would never see this kind of range in modern CoD's.
From a single payer standpoint, the earlier games had the feel of fighting your way through enemies and advancing on an objective whereas the CoD's became a James Bond kind of parody of warfare. I haven't played through the whole campaign for BF1 yet, but that first mission is intense. I thought i was doing it wrong when I died , and then the name and years popped up and soldiers were humanized again.
Koy koy save your essay power for school 😂😂😂 like damn dude a full out essay on this props man
I agree with a lot of this, but I absolutely cannot agree with your opinions on MW2 and how that was the start of the down fall. That was when the game improved on every level and grew the fanbase even more. Black Ops after that had the most thought provoking plot in the series. I think the downfall started for the series at MW3, with it being noticeably below MW2's quality. Call of Duty never set out to be a war simulator. It's a casual arcade shooter with story driven singleplayer and fast pace arena multiplayer.
Dog. You hit the nail on the head.
What are you talking about? Cod has never nor should it ever be considered a war simulator. He was saying that the earlier games were a depiction of war. Their campaigns intentionally put you in the shoes of some Joe Shmoe, and not some badass action hero as a way of showing the more brutal side of war. While the writing was not always top notch, the campaigns were also fun/challenging while also being thought provoking.
While MW2 wasn’t bad by any means, there was definitely a shift, not only in the campaign, but in the philosophy of the game as well. There was the already mentioned shift in the campaign, but what I really think started cod on its downward spiral was its shift from a focus in a balance between singleplayer and multiplayer to a focus on multiplayer. This definitely started with MW2
Agreed as far as the general quality of the game, but as far as what he's saying, he's right. I love MW2 beyond any game in the series and it houses my favorite campaign ever as well. But, it is a clear departure when it comes from style. Ray focused exponentially more on the campaigns of the games and practically ignored multiplayer, which has been the main selling point since CoD4. On that front and the overall tone shift of campaigns, he's right. But you're also right that on the multiplayer side of things, MW2 was leaps and bounds the best game of the series in terms of meaningful innovation and improvement. I would agree that MW3 felt like the first downward spiral. It seems like it set out to improve upon MW2's formula, but instead, ended up copying it and changing just a little bit but not in a good way. It removed a lot of the fun and sterilized the experience.
I'd agree with you. It can be said that MW3 is where things went south with the departure of many key developers leaving to start respawn entertainment. As far as I remember.
I was looking for this. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
Black Ops focusing on becoming futuristic after BO2 (Which did it right) was it's downfall 3, 4, and AW are not as fun as the ones that came before.
I agree, but wasn't the exo shit becuz of Advanced Warfare? BO2 did it right then Sledgehammer got too fuckin' clever.
Totally agree. I was skeptical when BO2 was announced but was blown away by how well they did the whole futuristic aspect because it wasn't so far into the future that it was ridiculous like BO3 or 4
idk why i love ghosts and left cod after it ..??
Exactly. BO2 was the last good COD for a lot of us.
Koweden “got too fuckin clever” except everyone was crying about how repetitive cod was, and people were hyped for advanced warfare, and BO3 is the only cod post MW3 that has had an increase in sales, the game with jet packs and q to win abilities
"Call of Duty 2 isn't a power trip of an FPS. It's about being just another soldier on the battlefield. And in my opinion, it's the best game to achieve this since it's release."
Play Red Orchestra 2 on a full server then. You're tone will shift faster than you can say "The Germans are over there". If you don't know where your enemies are in that game, you will die so fast it's unbelievable.
I do play Red Orchestra 2 and love it. I probably should've phrased it as the best single-player game to achieve it haha.
Raycevick Red Orchestra 2 does have singleplayer..but....it's let down by the AI. I've been killed very few times even on the hardest difficulty. But when it was...I bled out. Either than or was noscoped by a bot that was shooting at one of my teammates.
Rayce: Yay. How do you like HOTW btw?
General Wise: RO2's singleplayer is a travesty with a horrible framerate and the decision to make it so that you play mix and match classes. What the single player should be is a tutorial on how to play the different roles against decent bots. Each battle should have been focused on a new role, totalling about maybe twelve-twenty four missions (forgot how many roles there were). The final mission should you practicing how to command your squad/team and thus ensuring there are less noobs who just want the submachine gun in the multiplayer.
Jonathan Zhin It did. In fact, come to thing of it, only 5 people can hold a SMG
One thing I find hilarious is that when World at War came out, Japan was offended by being portrayed that way, but in the words of Ian 'Idubbbz' Carter
"(We) don't portray you that way, you portray yourself that way".
The way Japan acts about their actions in WW2 isn't very truthful at all.
Corey Patton the Japanese basically fucked over there own people when they had their country bombed
His last name is carter?
A fellow man of culture I see...
All they did was rape, both literally and figuratively, a third of Asia.
COD died when Soap died.
Ninja Dave.
Rest in peace Soap.
They dropped the soap
Press F to pay respects
Lol, I hate how this is somewhat true.
But what about Ghost?
"Last time Call of Duty visits WW2" That comment didn't age well
The last time cod portrayed it correctly as a griddy dark bloody conflict and terrifying war story the way a ww2 should be portrayed
@@nopenope963 I mean technically it does because the latest ww2 gabs is called ww2
Are you stupid? The game sledgehammer was making at the time of this video was AW2, that comment was completely true for two years after this video was published
Looinrims calm your tits man dont be rude
@@thatrileyguy Because a katana wielding BRITISH officer, and a badass female *with a prosthetic arm* is ww2 by every definition and accuracy.
Fuck off.
Alternate history is not history.
THANK YOU for bringing up the fact that battlefield was first to the modern scene in this "war" that the fanboys take part in. I'm so sick of idiots who claim that COD was first and I don't even play either anymore
+doodsalot270
I'm glad too.
Ghost recon
doodsalot270 But was it the best modern FPS ever? Hotly debated, but I'll take GR or COD4.
Don't forget that there was the modern warfare mod for BF1942 called Desert Warfare, and was what actually ultimately inspired BF2. Heck, DICE even hired the guys who created that mod to work on BF2 with them, but when EA became DICE's publisher, they took that team of modders away from the DICE team to form another studio and pretty much destroyed them :/ So yeah, you have a bunch of blokes who created a mod for BF1942 to thank for CoD4
TheMCJarhead But.... no BF games are considered on of the greatest games ever. COD 4 is. While I do agree with you on it being inspired by '42, COD 4 has influenced FAR more games than any BF game.
Press F to pay respecc
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Wow! I came here from you series on COG and i can't believe that your content has only 2000 views, your clearly very skilled and your content is always in depth and of a great quality, you deserve so much more attention, keep up the good work man!
Mountain Dew Martin He's the definition of thorough.
Yeah idk why I'm only just hearing of this guy now, UA-cam finally recommended something worth subscribing to for once.
Four years later....
"Bravo Six, going dark."
Welcome back Captain Price and welcome back Call of Duty.
Oh yeah back to the old cod.
Yeah, one can only hope.
Man I really hope they’ve finally realized where they went wrong, it’s not too late to fix it, the campaign is already said to make MW2 look like child’s play, and the few you tubers who have played it agree, it’s gut wrenching compared to MW2, I’m so excited for October 25th, the only thing that would destroy the game at this point and has me worried sick is the micro transactions, Activision is a bitch, BO4 made Activision 800 million in its first 3 months, there’s not question that there’s going to be micro transactions, only how it’s implemented
@@NightMythHunter I'm more worried they are going to have even more OMFG moments like how Raycevick described the Nuclear bomb scene in MW4 (and subsequently how MW2 had too much of those with little subtlety), because if they can't balance the style with substance it won't be truly engaging.
Theyll fuck it up again. Watch and see:(
You need more subscribers man, loved your halo videos
Thanks!
you said that and i went to look at his sub count only to realized that i wasn't subed. I was Kind of shocked. Take a guess what i just fixed!
im not gonaa sit here and let you downtalk MW2 like that
MMNSavatage you tell him
MMNSavatage I'm with ya buddy. That game had a boss campaign.
MMNSavatage "hurr durr you give legitimate reasons why mw2 is a bad game so you're wrong durr"
Laythan why is mw2 campaign good.
Teddy B no cod campaign is good because it's a military shooter
That tense build up to "When I was twelve years old, I shot my first nazi", had me crying with laughter.
I don't think this is an unpopular opinion, but I really enjoyed the MW series, and BO1&2...
MW2 was pretty good, went downhill after that
Vito who hurt you?
@Hammody Ahmed Well MW2 was the last COD game I played before abandoning the series. It makes me nostalgic though
I enjoyed them but id be lying if I said they were anything more than a generic action movie, which honestly is fine cod isnt about the campaign that isnt their goal although they seem to have tried with mw 2019
Cod 4 was art, mw2 and 3 were good fun, bo1 and 2 were kind of both, everything else was brainless fun with no substance, specially the last ones
If CoD4 is Tom Clancy, then MW2 is Michael Bay.
MW2 is like the first transformers, dumb but still a lot of fun, but also created a shitty series to come in which each subsequent entry becomes worse and worse although black ops 1 was still really good
Since Infinity Wars goes to shit Treyarch was good for BO1-2 but man.... RIP
Replace CoD4 with CoD2, and you're correct
@@Katky1 tom clancy is more of a techno thriller modern warfare style. I actually started reading tom clancy books because of it gave nostalgic feelings like CoD4.
@@williamfrost8081 I think the newers Tom Clancy games are techno thriller games like CoD4, but the originals (before Rainbow Six Vegas) felt alot more like simulation games like what CoD2 was trying to be
you didn't mention black ops 1... 😢 that's my favorite in the series
Black Ops is helmed by a different studio if I recall correctly.
UglukTheUruk This video contains games from all three studios, including World at War which was made by the same developers as Black Ops.
One of the best videos that I have watched on Call of Duty. You hit the nail on the head.
GhiftD I'm so glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the subscription!
"These teams of talented and creative individuals are spending thousands of hours and millions of dollars to make a 60$ edition of Simon says. Call of duty hasn't been releasing the same game for the last ten years, what is has been selling is a shell of it's former self, a former self that used to be respected." Couldn't of worded it better myself..
I would like to see you make a video on Infinite Warfare. At least it's campaign.
I likely will, as I heard it's actually solid. Hiring people from Naughty Dog tends to do that. Hopefully I'll be able to purchase it sometime this year.
Raycevick
That's good to hear. I look forward to it. I love your vids man. Keep it up :)
What ENB or Mod were you using? I don't know if it's just my eyes and from not having played CoD 2 in so long but the lighting looks way better.
SalsaSpartan7 It's actually quite a good campaign
I definitely agree. I very much enjoyed it. Ethan was my favorite. And I loved that "Moment on above Saturn".
Oh man i just watched all your halo videos in one sitting. Glad i found this. Great writing and narration.
very well done, completely agree
@17:48 "Hold X to pay respect"
I guess X marks the spot, eh?
I agree with most of the video, very well done. However, I disagree with the dismissal of Modern Warfare 2's 'No Russian' level. I believe it was one of the franchise's finest ludo-narrative moments, perhaps even its last moment of ludo-narrative brilliance.
I find it an excellent commentary on a matter that many people around the world in the early 21st century have grown to fear, acts of domestic terrorism. The first Modern Warfare did an excellent job of depicting the big elephant in the room for its time, the War on Terror, something most people around the world could relate to in one way or another. It's current, it's relevant, and it was captured in game design. But that was terrorism far overseas, Modern Warfare 2 depicted terrorism that was closer to home. What I mean is most people won't see the battlefields of Iraq, but there are a large number of people who visit airports several times a year.
What I admired most about 'No Russian' is how its game design only told the player to 'Follow the "Bad Guys" lead', and that's it. It never forced anyone to shoot or kill anyone (until later when the police and security arrive, at which point the level then turns into a more traditional shooter level unfortunately). The pressure to fit in, to 'save the many by sacrificing the few', is not only on the character at the time, but on the player as well, which is well done.
I see Modern Warfare as displaying how much war has changed and stayed the same since WWII. The lines are much more fuzzy between right and wrong in this modern age as compared to the more black-and-white (American/Russians/Good Guys vs Nazis/Japanese/Bad Guys) conflicts of the past, its was just the rules of war back then, it was much more clearly defined (though there is still the grey element inherent to war itself, such as the Russian soldiers burning the surrendering Nazis alive in World at War, something that most all prior Call of Duty games emphasized brilliantly). I see 'No Russian' as truly nailing in the point of just how grey modern conflict has become, the lines between right and wrong, or even who's side we're fighting for.
That's how I read the scene, I didn't see it as a desperate attempt to one-up itself and just be shock value. I thought it was quite brave and a damning realization of the world we live in today.
Besides that, I agree with much of this video, nice job mate!
Johnathon Hand I think you read a little to much into the game to support your own narrative.
*CoD's biggest mistake was stopping being a blockbuster war movie and starting being an over the top mexican soap opera*
No they're mistake was going from a saving private ryan to pearl harbour(The micheal bay movie)
😂
They went from saving private ryan to Black Hawk Down/Tom Clancy-Hyrbrid to a wannabe James Bond movie to a pretentious sci-fi hightech thriller.
...How do you call being one of the best selling franchises in gaming history a mistake?
best selling doesn't mean objectively good
call of duty 4 was my absolute favorite!playing as the S.A.S totally changed the way i played the game. no longer running into a room and spraying everything in sight with one long unrelenting trigger pull i began taking short controlled bursts using every last bullet with godly precision. truly felt one with the mission. its been years since i last gamed and watching this video gave me so much nostalgia. literally itching to buy a console!
A lot of people believe MW2 was the pinnacle of the Call of Duty franchise, going downhill only after the first black ops game.
+Brandon Ferguson
They feel that way because of the name COD built and youtube, video games, social media etc. were exploding in popularity.
But, their opinions aren't truth. The truth is what this guy said in his video; mw2 was the clear initial mark of laziness and bad design that call of duty would continue to show to this day.
PC players know better. That's when IW turned on the platform it originally started on. Heartless bastards.
+Brandon Ferguson
but you have to admit that the multiplayer of MW2 was a masterpiece
No it wasn't. MW2 MP was unbalanced and broken as hell.
*realistic and fun
fixed your comment for ya
After watching this video, I feel that the final scene in World at War when you raise the Soviet flag over the Reichstag building is a symbolic end to classic Call of Duty.
Broke my first controller playing MW2. It was so infuriating to play honestly. The multiplayer was actually still pretty great, but the story was so braindead that I never felt a reason to want to keep playing it.
God. The opening of MOH Allied Assault will forever live with me as one of the greatest moments in gaming. It was like playing the opening of saving private ryan.
You mean MoH Allied Assault or MoH Frontline? Because Frontline is where the omaha beach mission is featured at the beginning
at this point Call of Duty might as well change its title to Halo.
Whiterun Guard wait there's a difference?
I wish you said something about Black Ops. I stopped after MW3 but BO was my favorite (for the story believe it or not).
The story for Black Ops was actually very good. It works as psychological thriller as well as a war game.
What I liked about it was that the plot twist surrounded the main character as opposed to some random general nobody gave a crap about and then you start replaying all the levels in your head as you have a "holy shit" moment. Also, I'll never forget crouching through the trenches in Vietnam only to poke my head up and see hundreds if not thousands of North Vietnamese soldiers rushing at me. EEEEEEEPIC!!!
Areally good game with a good story, except for the end.... 'murica....
I played CoD when it came out in 2003.
Call of Duty: United Offensive is my favorite Call of Duty of all time hands down.
Which one was that? I don't think I saw that one.
@@samwallaceart288 UO is the expansion pack for cod1 and its PC only and should forever remain PC only.
Amen.
Hell yeah, United Offensive, whole Bastogne campaign or Kursk were mind-blowing for me at the time, and still are! Plus bomber mission
CoD1, Cod:UO, CoD: Finest Hour (best Soundtrack in any COD, hands down), and CoD:Big Red One are my absolute favorites. I think they're the peak of the series.
This video aged like fine wine🍷
"Quickscoping" and "Noscoping" and various cancerous memes were made really popular with Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer. No wonder its the most "dank" COD game, and its elements (like the M200 Intervention rifle) are used for endless MLG parodies.
They were a result of not being as fast-paced as many arena shooters so people had to come up with new ways to show skill.
It's admirable but yes, they're kinda annoying.
Too be fair, there were plenty of good noscopers from COD4 who were just people who learned how to use rifles from earlier WWII games or just loved it in COD4 who were actually talented zzirGrizz comes to mind of course. But what happened at MW2 is that so many 12 year olds all of a sudden thought they could be a MLG quickscoper and with the help of extreme aim assist and an IQ much less then 70 they became the stereotypical COD sqeakers we know today. Plus the fact that everyone with half a brain started bailing to BFBC2 when MW2 started going to shit. That helped to concentrate the morons. The noobs were always there but there were a lot of normal players also so it was at least balanced out, when MW2 went downhill they were the only ones stupid enough to keep playing, so they are the ones people associated with Post MW2 COD.
People usually like quickscoping and noscoping because it's the best way to get a kill with a sniper at close quarters
TBH, MW2 did have a fucking great multiplayer
ReonMagnum saaaaaaaaalt
Call or duty 4 was my first FPS experience a decade ago
I played MW on my grandfather’s Mac computer. That was my first FPS too.
I loved Call of Duty 2, it gave you three fronts to fight in as an American, Russian, or a Brit
Eliza Ash Cohen I have to say CoD 3. It let you play as the Americans, British, Canadians, and Polish throughout the Normandy campaign.
honestly idc if mw2 started the spiral into action movie mw2 and bo2 will still always be my two favs
MW3 was the last cod I got into. That was a great place to end the series.
hold your butt MW4 is going to happen soon
@@DanLvK i'll withhold my money. Thank you.
Black Ops 2 was the end for me.
Ghost
You actually believe it’s going to be a good game? Just because it’s from the modern warfare series? Micro transactions are going to be in the game. Supply drops are going to be in the games. It’s finna be shit
mine was ghosts and ghosts was a disaster 😥
@@DanLvK not MW4
Wait, 12yrs old in 2005? so that means you are only like 23/24? Damn, impressive work young man! Your halo retrospectives are incredible.
Conner Neal l think he is using the age of "12" as a figure of speech. Like how most people use the age of 12 as an exaggeration of someone being young. He talks about his first timr playing Halo at age 12 when it came out. He says the same thing about Call of Duty 2 at age 12. Even though Halo and Call of Duty 2 came out 4 years apart
Nope, I really was 12 years old when I played both.
Mw2 was amazing. The campaign, the weapons, the graphics, etc. I'll never forgot all the SnD matches I played, and the discussions in the game chat.
The only problems I had with the game was the noobtubers, one man army perk, and the danger close perk.
So many playstyles. UMP45 and Dual Wielding Rangers, Riot Shield with a SPAS-12, Using cold blooded perk with silenced weapons, etc.
The maps were amazing as well.
I totally agree with everything you said my guy
"But for the game's message, that heroics don't result in success" Just finished playing Spec Ops: The Line yesterday, this phrase literally resumes all of that game.
We're the same age :D lol, also COD2 was my first Call of Duty game as well alongside my new Xbox 360. I was the happiest kid in the world that Christmas.
Exceptional video. Thank you for letting me watch.
I was absolutely in love with every call of duty until ghosts.. Since then I feel like I lost something very dear and close to me 😢 please be the game we need MW4
You were right on the money with this. MW2 was the last CoD game for me, because I saw where the franchise was heading; I am surprised it took until BO4 to see it realized though.
CoD4 doesn't have a satisfying ending? What more do you want? The ending was arguably the best part of the story. Despite what seemed like a most certain, soon and inevitable demise, you still gave that bastard a solid FU and shot him. It was deeply satisfying.
I think he means the ending was too "happy". It would have been better if you failed, ultimately serving the larger message of "heroism never wins".
grayd98 Happy? Gaz gets blasted right in front of you? :P
Yes but you still solved the problem. Zakeiv and Al Asad are dead, and Makarov wasn't created yet.
I think the last good CoD was Balck Ops 1. Also how come no one talks about Finest Hour, that thing was hardcore
Arkadi Kalmykow black ops 2
I to enjoyed black cops 2
321Ian123 there not to a game then aiming in a sniper scope quickly
Black ops 2 was the last one that I enjoyed and the last one that I bought... When it comes to multiplayer and zombies, that was when it peaked, I already gave up on CoD after Mw3, but Bo2 brought me back for one year... Of course, the year after that it was fish AI time, so I never even considered buying it after that...
Isn't it because Finest Hour was just a meh port of the PC CoD1 to PS2?
With all three modern warfares combined, its still my favorite even if it feels like they jump the shark
I came straight here after watching the campaign trailer for the new MW. I hope they nail it. And you should do your I've Finally Played thing.
Well about that...
Annoys me how vCoD (CoD 1, released 2003) gets so LITTLE credit. To this day, vcod, along with it's expansion pack United Offensive, was not only my childhood, but to this day one of the best WW2 shooters to ever be released. Story was excellent, missions varied, and the multiplayer was amazing. Im not seeing this through rose tinted glasses either, I regularly played call of duty online until around about 2011, after having played for 8 years.
Finally! Same
How about the bullshit AI in the campaign or people online jump around like crazy just to shoot people
AI for 2003 was pretty solid, jump around like crazy is still a thing in cod if I'm not mistaken.
yeah thats true, mabey I've just been playing too much cod 4
Agreed. COD 1 came first and 2 and 3 were just attempts to improve it requiring less imagination and creativity. Indeed, they wouldn't even have been possible if not for the success and quality of the first game.
My exact thoughts!
I loved the CoD:MW, enjoyed the campaign to the last minute of it, and had a wonderful "after effect" later on. The "All Ghillied Up" level alone had a strong cinematic (almost movie-like) plot and setting.
But when I started to play CoD:MW2 - I felt like the game's "quality bar" has been severely lowered, because instead of clever (yet, linear, ofc) decisions, the game had a "Oh, look, more enemies. Go on ... shoot them." vibe. But I completed the game nonetheless.
And then I played CoD:MW3. The urge to ragequit was strong. It clearly was not the Modern Warfare game I played in the past. I finished it just to "close" the game series (MW one), while I wasn't enjoying the game itself. Not a single bit.
The last good mission I played was the second one from Black Ops. Verkuta I think it's called.
too bad i couldn't get to that because the first one was so bad. it was the one that made me quit cod forever.
FREEDOM FOR YOU MASON NOT FOR ME
GraveUypo Vorkuta nigga
I think I played Black Ops 2 partway on PC; it had some okay stuff in the beginning on the flashback levels. The intro in Africa was frustrating but an interesting mix-up to see a straight, open-field battle from all directions. Then there was the level where you hijack a river boat and find your buddy in a bloody prisoners' hold. The game lost me right around the future-day Myanmar level where you're breaking into sci-fi shit; not because I don't like sci-fi, but because the coolest parts of the level were the parts where I wasn't allowed to do anything.
@@ramsonk lmao🤣🤣
I don't really agree with his assessment of MW2. I LOVE Cod 4's gritty aesthetic, but MW2's insane action-movie campaign was an absolute blast. So many great missions and moments. It is for sure where the franchise began to decline. They have continually tried to recreate the Micheal Bay aspects of MW2 by amping up the explosions/set pieces, but none of it hits the way MW2 does.
mw2 is a great idea for a game but the problem is that its not cod or at least is not what cod was at the time. Cod was a game that wanted you to stay back, to survive. Mw2 was a game that wanted you to push in like a hero. The problem is that mw2 uses that same regnerative healing mechanic that cod used to keep players in cover. This means that mw2 wants you to both push in and stay back. This is a textbook example of ludonarrative dissonance and it stops the game from being either a phenomenal action game or a phenomenal war simulator. It is stuck in a zone where it can be a good game but not a great one.
The downfall of cod really happened when they forgot that shooters were only fun when they required a little bit of skill. So on rails turret sections where there is no threat whatsoever and whatever it is you are doing is unimportant because the enemies are useless towards you arnt fun.
where the heck is black ops
black ops 1 is alright but bo2 sucks
@@cSoLo Trash games, Treyarch are the actual REASON the game died. Ignore the biased video that fails to acknowledge the more important parts of multiplayer games. They added lag compensation. That was what drove more and more people away from what used to be a reward for reaction game, to a reward for higher ping. That's the least competitive thing you can do to any game and is about as smart as eating raw meat.
in the bin with its graphics
@@CritirusSo you are saying that a game franchise died just because two games had a LITTLE inferior servers? Bo1 & 2 are some of the best selling and highest rated CoD-games ever, and for a good reason.
@@Critirus no, I blame infinity ward. At least BO had some grit and was grounded, but then mw2 comes along and now every game after is like an exact rehash with futuristic elements just being duplicated, it barely takes place in our time anymore.
I thought that MW2 was amazing, I still play it. I do agree with most of what you said, but I personally absolutely loved the first two Black Ops games. You didn't even mention them, they did do the whole 1 man army thing, but it was a hell of a lot more believable, as the missions were stealthy and most of the enemies you killed were from an ambush or stealth position catching them off guard, making it more viable. The stories and acting were incredible and were mostly based with the backdrop of actual events that are rarely explored in video games.
World at war was so good.
My first ever FPS BTW.
same
The dude in 17:29 looks like he's been CGI'd into a scene. =)
Great video! Must have been hard work putting it together, thanks for making this.
Beard Hitbox TV You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it; and yeah, it takes some time to edit these sort of videos , but there's some kind of strange enjoyment when you've finally completed it.
CuHnadian It was really interesting this video, I really want a sequel to it you didn't talk about MW3 and the rest. You can also talk about the things that happened with Infinity Ward with MW2 were the studio left, and then MW3 was rushed. I'm subbed.
Yara Van Snelle While I would like to go more in-depth with MW2, MW3, Black Ops, Ghosts and Advanced Warfare, I feel like people have covered most of what I would critique. Perhaps someday I'll revisit them, but I'm sure I'll be using COD as an example of something in future videos. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the subscription.
CuHnadian I didn't see a lot of video's talking about the Infinity ward that left, you could get more in to that. I will see in my sub box.
I'd like to thank UA-cam for finally recommended this to me.. I'm getting old now and I'm from the days of the original Age of Empires, Rainbow Six, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament, And Quake 3. Rainbow Six was probably my most played ( clan ladder), But CoD 2 was my favorite CoD by far. Modern Warfare was good too but CoD 2 would immerse you in war. I have tried all of the newer CoD's and i just can't do it, The pacing is terrible and it doesn't feel epic. Medal of honor, CoD 2 was so Epic I have never felt so hopeless against the onslaught but to somehow make it out alive to the next mission. they really gave you the feeling of war. As in the newer games i feel BF1 ( not 1942, which btw was awesome with desert combat mod) and BF V bring back a little bit of the same feeling in the campaign.
My son is 17 now and he always ask me for the new CoD and i just can't buy it for him. I tell him to play the old ones for a real true experience. Of course thats not good enough cause his friends play the newest ones. I really don't know where we are headed with games anymore as all the best games have been watered down to yearly releases with basically the same everything with new skins. I feel like the last really good games were Raven Shield ( Rainbow Six 3), BF2 from major publishers due to just trying to make quick money on all the newer ones. I play Star Citizen because it actually has huge ambition that games in the past had and is no longer seen from developers.
love the comment man, sometime i feel like doing the same thing, play the game i play haha. these games coming out doesn't seem right and loosing so much values of identity and not sticking to the core. now its feel like, do whatever its flashy and trendy that make money. the problem is people are buying the game and supporting these type of game. so the company will continue to make these game until they see negative in their profit. this mean there is a big community that like those games. I feel were getting to old for the generation and are standards is not respected in today gaming.
SirWes Yeah. I get that you are nostalgic but just because you like the older games doesn’t mean a 17 year old will share the same opinion. He might even look back and see the newer games the same way you see the older ones
Speaking about Rainbox Six, my Goood I miss playing something like RS: Vegas 😍
@@philphil3507 Ya this guy sounds like an absolute boomer
Fantastic video man!
oh boy how well this has aged
4 diffrent platforms cod 4 was on remember the wii
General Bland WE DO NOT SPEAK OF THAT!
It was released a couple of years later though. The video was about the reception around launch.
Pretty sure it was on the Nintendo DS too...
Cod 4 on console/PC- Everybody aiming
Cod 4 on WII(I found life!!!!)- Take SAW, then spray in general direction of enemy.